PortalPlayer Hits High Notes (The Motley Fool)The Motley Fool - I'm simply in awe of the growth that PortalPlayer (Nasdaq: PLAY - News) reported in its earnings release last night. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, because the company's chip designs and development kits power Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod, as well as hard drive-based MP3 players from Koninklijke Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG - News) -- feel free to substitute Royal for Koninklijke --and others.

SCO, IBM and Outcomes-Based Circular Reasoning (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - SCO's basic claim against IBM (NYSE: IBM) is simple. According to SCO, it is the legal successor to AT&T (NYSE: T) with respect to licensing of the AT&T Unix source code and its derivatives. IBM, SCO said, violated the contractual terms under which it has access to AT&T and related code by passing protected knowledge into the Linux development effort.